Quark Publishing System update to be shown at IFRA Expo 2006

PRESS RELEASE

New and enhanced fea­tures pro­vide val­ue to pub­lish­ing and mar­ket­ing work­flows; next gen­er­a­tion pre­view demon­strates com­mit­ment to open stan­dards and inte­grat­ed solutions 

NEUCHÂTEL, Switzerland – October 5, 2006 – Quark Inc. announced today that it will pre­view the lat­est update of its Quark Publishing System (QPS) at this year’s IFRA Expo and con­fer­ence in Amsterdam from 9–12 October 2006 as well as a first look at new tech­nol­o­gy that will enable cus­tomers to imple­ment even greater col­lab­o­ra­tion and open sys­tems sup­port in dynam­ic pub­lish­ing environments. 

Visitors to IFRA will see a demon­stra­tion of QPS 3.6 – the lat­est upgrade to the cur­rent QPS soft­ware. QPS is used around the globe by news­pa­per and mag­a­zine pub­lish­ers, as well as mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions depart­ments, to enable greater col­lab­o­ra­tion in the cre­ative design and edi­to­r­i­al process, sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduc­ing the time to mar­ket for publications.

QPS 3.6 includes a num­ber of new and enhanced fea­tures based direct­ly on cus­tomer feed­back, aimed at enhanc­ing work­flow and the pro­duc­tion process. New fea­tures include redlin­ing and AppleScript sup­port, out­put styles sup­port in QuarkCopyDesk, new out­put styles for export­ing arti­cles as XML and sup­port for jump sto­ries. These fea­tures are crit­i­cal to mag­a­zine and news­pa­per pub­lish­ers and cor­po­rate mar­ket­ing groups that rely on QPS and will pro­mote the col­lab­o­ra­tion and mul­ti­chan­nel out­put demand­ed in an enter­prise pub­lish­ing solution.

Leading edge tech­nol­o­gy platform
Quark will also pro­vide a first look at its next gen­er­a­tion edi­to­r­i­al work­flow sys­tem that will sup­port QuarkXPress 7 and is based on mod­ern indus­try stan­dard tech­nolo­gies such as Java and .NET, mak­ing it plat­form inde­pen­dent, database-independent, scal­able and eas­i­er to inte­grate and implement.

“For exist­ing QPS cus­tomers, the next gen­er­a­tion QPS rep­re­sents a mon­u­men­tal step for­ward, deliv­er­ing mod­ern, but proven, soft­ware technologies.” said Max Lyth, tech­ni­cal direc­tor at UK sys­tem inte­gra­tor, Automatrix, who have been sup­ply­ing and inte­grat­ing QPS solu­tions for the past decade. “By tak­ing an open stan­dards approach to a brand new serv­er archi­tec­ture, sys­tem inte­gra­tors and oth­er soft­ware devel­op­ers will be able to great­ly improve inter­ac­tion and infor­ma­tion flow between edi­to­r­i­al sub­sys­tems. This will enable cus­tomers to take a best of breed approach to their edi­to­r­i­al work­flow com­po­nents with QPS at the centre.”

Nearly 15 years since it was first released, QPS con­tin­ues to lead the way in edi­to­r­i­al work­flow and col­lab­o­ra­tion. “At Quark we rec­og­nized the need to enhance the under­ly­ing tech­nol­o­gy in QPS to bring it inline and ahead of oth­er work­flow solu­tions on the market,” said Matthew Wallis, senior vice pres­i­dent of sales and mar­ket­ing EMEA and Asia Pacific. “We believe that the new QPS will sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er the total cost of own­er­ship for our cus­tomers and ear­ly feed­back sug­gests we are on the right track.”

Availability
QPS 3.6 is sched­uled for release in Q4 of 2006. The next gen­er­a­tion tech­nol­o­gy is slat­ed for avail­abil­i­ty to sys­tem inte­gra­tors and cus­tomers in ear­ly 2007.
For more infor­ma­tion on QPS please vis­it (euro​.quark​.com/​en/qps)

Quark Partners at IFRA
Reflecting the strong sup­port for Quark tech­nol­o­gy, the Quark booth will also fea­ture a num­ber of Quark part­ners includ­ing includ­ing e‑nvention, e‑pro solu­tions, QuickWire Labs, A & F Computer-Systeme, CoDesCo IT Consulting, Picdar, Markzware, and Easypress Technologies. These part­ners will be demon­strat­ing com­pli­men­ta­ry solu­tions inte­grat­ing with QuarkXPress, QPS and Quark Dynamic Document Server (QuarkDDS).